Where Winters Forever Cry · Summoning

137 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 15 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHERE WINTERS FOREVER CRY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16 and 36 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 19 sections: 73 keep time, 42 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART J
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFQJNA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Winters Forever Cry?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Where Winters Forever Cry hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Where Winters Forever Cry?

12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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